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Why Did Apprenticeship and Indentured Servitude Decline After the Revolution

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Why did apprenticeship and indentured servitude decline after the Revolution?


A) King George III had supported them, and anything associated with the king was unpopular in the United States.
B) Many apprentices and indentures had refused to fight in the Revolution, and their bosses, resenting them for it, got rid of them.
C) Thomas Paine's criticism of them in Common Sense greatly influenced the many who had read his pamphlet.
D) The lack of freedom inherent in apprenticeship and indentured servitude struck growing numbers of Americans as incompatible with republican citizenship.

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